Techdirt’s Mike Masnick on the history of the NSA and mass surveillance in America, and why Anthropic’s fight with the Pentagon should worry us.

The infrastructure hardening that protects data from kinetic attack may simultaneously expose it to a subtler, more permanent ...

The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass ...

Hailed by some and condemned by others, Edward Snowden’s infamous story began with a mysterious email and a trove of classified secrets that would soon shock the world. Now, more than a decade later, ...

Poitras has been producing and directing documentaries for more than 20 years, winning both an Oscar and a Pulitzer Prize for work relating to whistleblower Edward Snowden and mass surveillance. She ...

The Treasury Department has axed a string of contracts with consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton over a former employee’s leaks of the tax returns of President Donald Trump — along with Jeff Bezos and ...

Dec. 22 (UPI) --Jimmy Kimmel is set to deliver The Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4 this week. The U.K. program, which debuted in 1993, has previously featured addresses from Edward Snowden, ...

In May 2019, the UN Special Rapporteur for Torture examined Julian Assange in a UK prison, where the WikiLeaks founder was incarcerated after Ecuador forced him out of its embassy in London.

Da'quavion Snowden was convicted and sentenced to life for first-degree premeditated murder and attempted first-degree premeditated murder for the death of Ladarius Clardy and near-death of Eric Young ...

Da'quavion Snowden was convicted of principal to first-degree premeditated murder and sentenced to life in 2023 The First District Court of Appeal ruled Snowden needs a new trial after ECSO ...